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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004/article-19",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/163",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Services and Section 17C Agreements (Transitional and other Ancillary Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-and-section-17c-agreements-transitional-and-other-ancillary-provisions-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Rights of entry",
  "text": "(1) Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a relevant medical practitioner had received a written request for inspection of his practice premises under paragraph 23(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations but, on 31st March 2004, no inspection had yet taken place pursuant to that request, the request shall, on 1st April 2004, be regarded as notice of an intended entry to the succeeding contractor under–\n(a) the term of its general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 81 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations; or\n(b) the equivalent term of its default contract.\n(2) In determining whether reasonable notice was given of any entry to the practice premises following a notice referred to in paragraph (1), regard shall be had to the date on which the request under paragraph 23(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2018/66",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/163/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:52.079575+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}